REGULATIONS 



THE RECRUITING SERVICE 



ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. 



WAR DEPARTMENT, 

Adjutant General's Office, 

Washington, July 26, 1858. 
The following regulations foi' the recruiting service of the Army 
of the United States, are published for the information and govern- 
ment of all concerned. 

By ORDEE OF THE SECRETARY OF WaR I 

E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 



REGULATIONS 



THE RECRUITING SERVICE 



ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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WAR DEPARTMENT, 

Adjutant General's Office, 

Washington, July, 1858. 



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WASHINGTON: 

WILLIAM A. HARRIS, PUBLIC PRINTKK. 
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1 The recruiting service will be conducted by the Adjutant 

General under the dkection of the Secretary of War. 

2 Field officers will be detailed to superintend the recruiting 

districts, and lieutenants to take charge of the recruiting parties. 
The recruiting service will form a special roster. The Adjutant 
General will detail the field officers, and announce in orders the 
niunber of lieutenants to be detailed from each regiment by its 
colonel. When the detail is not according to the roster, the special 
reason of the case shall be reported and laid before the Secretary of 
War. 

3 A recruiting party will consist generally of one lieutenant, 

one non-commissioned officer, two privates, and a drummer and 
fifer. The parties will be sent from the principal depots, and none 
but suitable men selected. 

4 Officers on the general recruiting service are not to be ordered 

on any other duty, except from the Adjutant General's Office. 

DUTIES OF SUPERINTENDENTS. 

5 As soon as a recruiting station is designated, the superintend- 
ent sends estimates for funds to the Adjutant General, and requisi- 
tions on the proper departments (through the Adjutant General) for 
clothing, camp equipage, arms, and accoutrements. 

6 Subsequent supplies for the stations in his district are procured 

by the superint€ndent on consolidated estimates ; these are made 



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quarterly for funds, and every six or twelve months for clothing, 
equipage, arms, and accoutrements. Estimates for funds will be in 
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Superintendent. 

7 Funds and supplies of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, 

arms and accoutrements, when ordered, will be sent direct to each 
station. 

8 The superintendents will transmit to the Adjutant General 

consolidated monthly returns of the recruiting parties under their 
superintendence, according to directions on the printed blanks, ac- 
companied by one copy of the enlistment of each recruit enlisted 
within the month. Also a quarterly return of deceased soldiers to 
the Adjutant General and Second Auditor. 



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9 When recruits should be sent to regimeuts, a superintendent 

will report to the Adjutant General for instructions in reference 
thereto. 

10 When recruits are sent from a depot or rendezvous to a 

regiment or post, a musler and descriptive roll, and an account of clothing 
of the detachment, will be given to the officer assigned to the com- 
mand of it ; and a duplicate of the muster and descriptive roll will 
be forwarded to the Adjutant General by the superintendent, who 
will note on it the names of all the officers on duty with the detach- 
ment, and the day of its departure from the depot or rendezvous. 

11 The superintendent will report all commissioned or non- 
commissioned officers who may be incapable or negligent in thi' 
discharge of their functions. Where a recruiting party fails to get 
recruits from any cause other than the faidt of the officer, the super- 
intendent will recommend another station for the party. 

12 When a rendezvous is closed, the superintendent will give 

the necessary instructions for the safe-keeping or disposal of the 
public property, so as not to involve any expense for storage. 

13 Tours of inspection by superintendents will be made only 

on instructions from the Adjutant General's Office. Officers on the 
recruiting service will not be sent from place to place without orders 
from the same source. 

DUTIES OF EECRUITING OFFICERS. 

14 Success in obtaining recruits depends much on the activity 

and personal attention of recruiting officers, and they will not entrust 
to enlisted men the duties for which themselves only are responsible. 
They will in no case absent themselves from their stations without 
authority from the superintendent. 

15 Recruiting officers will not allow any man to be deceived or 

inveigled into the service by false representations, but will in person 
explain the nature of the service, the length of the term, the pa}% 
clothing, rations, and other allowances to which a soldier is entitled 
by law, to every man before he signs the enlistment. If minora 



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present themselves, they are to be treated with great candor ; the 
names and residences of their parents or guardians, if they have any, 
must be ascertained, and they will be informed of the minor's wish 
to enlist, that they may make their objections or give their consent. 

16 With the sanction of superintendents, recruiting officers may 

insert in not exceeding two newspapers, brief notices directing atten- 
tion to the rendezvous for further information. 

17 Any free white male person above the age of eighteen and 

under thirty-five years, being at least five feet four and a half inches 
high, effective, able-bodied, sober, free from disease, of good charac- 
ter and habits, and able to speak and understand well the English 
language, may be enlisted. This regulation, so far as respects the 
height and age of the recruit, shall not extend to musicians, or to 
soldiers who may " re-enlist " or have served honestly and faithfully 
a previous enlistment in the army. 

18 No person under the age of twenty-one years is to be enlisted 

without the written consent of his parent, guardian, or master. The 
recruiting officer must be very particular in ascertaining the true age 
of the recruit, and will not accept him when there is a doubt of his 
being of age. 

19 After the nature of the service and terms of enlistment have 

been fairly explained to the recruit, the officer, before the enlist- 
ments are filled up, will read to him, and offer for his signature, the 
annexed declaration, to be appended to each copy of his enlistment: 

I, , desiring to enlist in the Army of the United States for 

the period of five years, do declare that I am years and 

months of age ; that I have neither wife nor child ; that I have 
never been discharged from the United States service on account of 
disability, or by a sentence of a court martial, or by order before the 
expiration of a term of enlistment ; and I know of no impediment 
to my serving honestly and faithfully as a soldier for five years. 

Witness : 



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20 If the recruit be a minor, his parent, guardian, or master 

must sign a consent to his enlisting, wliich will be added to the pre- 
ceding declaration, in the following form : 

I, , do certify that I am the [father, only surviving parent, 

legal master, or guardian) of ; that the said is 

3'ears of age ; and I do hereby freely give my consent to his enlisting 
as a soldier in the Army of the United States for the period of five 
years. 

Witness : 



21 The forms of declaration, and of consent in case of a minor, 

having been signed and witnessed, the reciaiit will then be duly in- 
spected by the recruiting officer, and surgeon, if one be present, and 
if accepted, the 20th and 87th Articles of War will be read to him ; 
after which he will be allowed time to consider the subject until his 
mind appears to be fully made up before the oath is administered to 
him. 

22 As soon as practicable, and at least within six days after his 

enlistment, the following oath will be administered to the recruit : 

" I, A — B — , do solemnly swear or affirm, (as the case may be,) 
that I Vvill bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and 
that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their 
enemies or opposers whatsoever, and observe and obey the orders of 
the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers ap- 
pointed over me, according to the rules and articles for the govern- 
ment of the armies of the United States." (See 10th Art. War.) 

23 Under the Article of War above cited, and the acts of Con- 
gress approved September 16, 1850, July 29, 1854, and June 12, 
1858, a justice of the peace, the chief magistrate of any town or city 
corporate, (not being an officer of the Army,) a notary public, or, 
when recourse camiot be had to such civil magistrates, a judge ad- 
vocate, or any commissioned officer of the army, may administer the 
.above oath. 



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24 It is the duty of the recruitmg officer to be present at the 

inspection of the recruit by tlie medical officer. In passing a re- 
cruit tlie medical officer is to inspect him stripped ; to see that he 
Jias free use of all his limbs ; that his chest is ample ; that his hear- 
ing, vision, and speech are perfect ; that he has no tumors, or 
ulcerated, or extensively cicatrized legs ; no rupture or chronic 
cutaneous affection ; that he has not received any contusion, or 
"wound of the head, that, may impair his faculties ; that he is not a 
drunkard ; is not subject to convulsions ; and has no infectious 
disorder, nor any other that may unfit him for military service. 

25 Recruiting officers will not employ private physicians, 

without authority from the Adjutant General's Office, for the special 
purpose of inspecting the recruits prior to their enlisting. 

26. ..If it be necessary, as in case of sickness, to employ a physi- 
cian, the recruiting officer may engage his services by contract on 
reasonable terms, by the visit, or by the month. If by the month, 
the inspection of the recruits must be stated in the contract as part of 
his duty. The physician will be paid from the recruiting funds. 

27 Enlistments must, in all cases, be taken in triplicate. Tire 

recruiting officer will send one copy to the Adjutant General with 
his quarterly accounts, (paragraph 57, No. 1,) a second to the 
superintendent with his monthly return, (paragraph 57, No. 6,) and 
a third to the depot at the same time the recruits are sent there. 
In cases of soldiers re-enlisted in a regiment, or of regimental re- 
cruits, the third copy of the enlistment will be sent at its date to 
regimental headquarters for file. 

28 When ordnance sergeants re-enlist, the recruiting officer 

will immediately send the second copy of the enlistment direct to the 
Adjutant General, and the third coi>y to the station of the ordnance 
sergeant for file. 

29 A non-commissioned officer, musician, or private soldier, who 

may re-enlist into his company or regiment within two months 
before, or one month after the expiration of his term of service, shall 
receive a boimty of three months' extra pay — that is to say, the 
pay he was receiving as pay of his grade, and as additional pay for 



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length of service and for certificate of merit. This bounty shall be 
paid by the recruiting officer at the time of enlistment, and noted 
on tlie descriptive list, and timely notice of probable re-enlistments 
in a company must be given beforehand to the proper authority, 
that the necessary funds may be provided. Ordnance sergeants and 
hospital stewards arc non-commissioned officers entitled to the bounty 
in tbe case provided. 

30 Enlistments must, in no case, be antedated so as to entitle 

a soldier to bounty who applies after the period allowed for ' ' re- 
enlisting" has expired. 

31 A premium of two dollars will be paid to any citizen, non- 

commLssioned officer, or soldier, for each accepted recruit that he 
may bring to the rendezvous; but not for soldiers who receive bounty 
for " re-enlisting." 

32 The recruiting officer will see that the men under hLs com- 
mand are neat in their personal appearance, and will require the 
permanent party to wear their military dress in a becoming manner, 
especially when permitted to go abroad. 

33 Only such articles of clothing as are indispensable for im- 
mediate use, will be issued to recruits at the rendezvous. Their 
equipment will not be made complete till after they have passed the 
inspection subsequent to their arrival at the depot. 

34 The instruction of the recruits will commence at the rendez- 
vous from the moment of enlistment. The general superintendent 
will see that all recruiting officers give particular attention to tliis 
subject. 

35 Recruits ■will be sent from rendezvous to depots every ten 

days, or oftener if practicable, provided the number disposable ex- 
ceeds three. The detachments of recruits will be sent from rendez- 
vous to depots under charge of a non-commissioned officer. 

36 Commiitation for fuel and quarters, when allowed, is paid 

from the recruiting funds on the usual vouchers receipted by the 
officer himself. 

37 — Every officer commanding a recruiting party will procure the 
necessary transportation, forage, fuel, straw, and stationery, taking 



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the requisite vouchers ; but no non-commisKioned officer or soldier 
is to be allowed to become a contractor for the supplying of any 
article which may be required. 

38 The transportation of recruits to depSts, and from one re- 
cruiting station to another, ■will be paid from the recruiting funds ; 
transportation of officers and enlisted men on the recruiting service 
will be paid in the same manner, except when first proceeding to 
join that service, or returning to their regiments after having been 
relieved. 

39 No expenses of transportation of officers will be admitted 

that do not arise from orders emanating from the Adjutant General's 
Office, except they be required to visit branch or auxiliary rendez- 
vous under their charge, when they will be allowed the stage, steam- 
boat, or railroad fare, porterage included. 

40 Whenever an officer is relieved or withdrawn from the 

recruiting service, he will pay over the balance of any unexpended 
recruiting funds in his possession to the officer appointed to succeed 
him, or to the paymaster, if no officer be so designated ; and if there 
be no paymaster or other proper officer convenient to receive such 
balance, the amount will be deposited to the credit of the Treasurer 
of the United States, with the most convenient Assistant Treasurer, 
or other depositary of public moneys. In either case the officer will 
forward to the Adjutant General the evidence of the disposition he 
may make of the funds, and report the fact to the superintendent, 
or to his colonel, if on regimental recruiting service. 

RENDEZVOUS, QUARTERING AND SUBSISTING RECRUITS. 

41 Written contracts will be made by recruiting otficers for the 

rent of a rendezvous upon the most reasonable terms possible. The 
rent will be paid from the recruiting funds. The terms of the con- 
tract will be immediately reported to the Adjutant General. 

42 When subsistence cannot be issued by the commissariat to 

recruiting parties, it will be pi'ocured by the officer in charge. 
Written contracts will be made for the subsistence of the recruits, 
(see form A,) due public notice being first given inviting proposals 



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for furnlsliing complete rations, (or board — sec par. 43.) The 
original advertisements, bids, contracts, and bond, will be for- 
warded to the Commissary General of Subsistence, and copies be 
kept for the use of the recruiting station. 

43 "When convenience and economy require that the contract 

shall be for board and lodging, the officer in charge shall estimate the 
cost of the ration for which the contractor shall be paid from the 
subsistence funds, as before directed ; and shall pay the amount duo 
to lodging from the recruiting funds. 

44 Issues will be made, or board furnished, (as the case may 

be,) on regular provision returns, specifying the number of men, and 
days and dates. A ration in kind may be allowed to one laundress 
at each principal rendezvous. The contractor will forward his ac- 
counts either monthly or quarterly to the Commissary General of 
Subsistence, {see form B.) This account will be supported by an 
abstract of issues, duly certified by the recruiting officer, {see form C.) 

45 xit temporary rendezvous, advertising may be dispensed 

with, and a contract made conditioned to be terminated at the 
pleasure of the officer or the Commissary General. 

46 The recruiting officer will be required, when convenient, to 

receive from the Commissary General and disburse the funds for the 
subsistence of his party, and to render his accounts quarterly to the 
Commissary General. 

47 When a contract cannot be made, the recruiting officer may 

pay the necessary expenses of subsisting and boarding his party ; 
rendering distinct accounts for amounts paid from the subsistence 
and recruiting funds, as in paragraph 43. 

48 The expenses of subsistence at branch rendezvous, and all 

expenses of advertising for proposals, will be paid by the contractor 
at the principal station and included in his accounts. 



49.. -Officers on recruiting service will make timely requisitions 
for printed blanks, direct, as follows : 



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To the Adjutant General. — For enlistments ; re-enlistments ; forms 
for medical inspection of recruits ; muster rolls ; muster and descrip- 
tive rolls ; monthly returns ; tri-monthly reports ; recruiting accounts 
cuncut ; accounts of clothing issued ; posters or handbills. 

To the Quartermaster General. — -For estimates of clothing, camp and 
garrison equipage ; clothing receipt rolls ; quarterly returns of 
clothing, camp and garrison equipage. 

50 No blanks of the above kinds will be used, except the 

printed forms furnished. Blanks of other kinds, when required, 
must be ruled. 

51 Blanks for the regimental recruiting service are furnished 

to the company commanders. 

FURNITURE AND STATIONERY. 

52 The articles of furniture and police utensils which may be 

absolutely necessary at a recruiting station may be procured by the 
officer in charge of the rendezvous, on the special authority of the 
superintendent. 

53 Necessary stationery will be purchased monthly or quarterly, 

not to exceed, per quarter at each station, six quires of paper, twenty- 
four quills, or twenty -four steel pens and two holders, half an ounce 
of wafers, one paper of inkpowder, one bottle of red ink, four ounces 
of sealing wax, one quire of cartridge paper, or one hundred en- 
velopes, one-fourth quire of blotting paper, and one piece of tape. 
If necessary, an additional supply of one-fourth of these rates will 
be allowed to the recruiting officer having charge of one or more 
auxiliary rendezvous distant from his permanent station. At the 
principal depots the allowance must be fixed by the wants of the 
public service. 

54 To each office table is allowed one inkstand, one wafer 

stamp, one wafer box, one paper folder, one ruler, and as many lead 
pencils as may be required, not exceeding four per annum. 



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55 Such blank books as may be necessary are allowed to the 

general superintendent and at permanent recruiting depots ; also, 
one descriptive book for the register of recruits at each permanent 
station. Blank books will be purchased by recruiting officers, under 
instructions from the superintendent. 

56 When a recruiting officer is relieved, the blanks, books, and 

unexpended stationery, with all the other public property at the 
station, will be transferred to his successor, who will receipt for the 
same. 

ACCOUNTS, KETCRNS, ETC. 

57 The following are the accounts, returns, &c., to be rendered 

by officers on recruiting service. 

To the Adjutant General. 

1. Recruiting accounts current, quarterly, with abstract, (form D,) 
vouchers, (form E,) and one set of enlistments. An account will 
be rendered by every officer who may receive funds, whether he 
makes expenditures or not during the quarter. 

2. A quarterly Teturn of stationery, books, fuel, straw, and such 
other property as may have been purchased with the recruiting 
funds. 

.3. A monthly summary statement of money received, expended, and 
remaining on hand, (form F,) to be transmitted on the last day of 
each month. 

4. A muster roll of all enlisted men at the rendezvous, including the 
names of all who may have joined, died, deserted, been transferred 
or discharged, during the period embraced in the muster roll. 

5. Tri monthly reports of the state of the recruiting service, accord- 
ing to the prescribed form. 

To the Superintendent, 

6. A monthly return of recruits and of the recruiting party, accom- 
panied with one copy of the enlistment of every recruit enlisted 
within the month. 



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7. Duplicate muster rolls for pay of the permanent recruiting party, 
which may be sent direct to the nearest paymaster, when authorized 
by the superintendent. A triplicate of this roll will be retained at 
the station. 

S. Muster and descriptive rolls and an account of clotldng of every de- 
tachment of I'ecruits ordered to the principal depot. If the recruits 
be ordered to proceed from the rendezvous dired, to join any regiment 
or post, these rolls and accounts of clothing will be delivered to the 
officer in command of the detachment, a duplicate of each muster 
and descriptive roll only being then made and sent to the super- 
intendent. 

9. Copy of the quarterly abstract of contingent expenses ; to bo 
forwarded within three days after the expiration of each quarter. 

10. Quarterly estimates for funds. 

11. Estimates for clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, and 
for arms and accoutrements, for six or twelve mouths, or for such 
times as may be directed by the superintendent. 

12. Copy of the return No. 13. 

To the Quartermaster General. 

13. A quarterly return of clothing and camp and ganison equipage, 
and of all quartermaster's property in his possession, not including 
such as is purchased with the recruiting funds. 

To the Ordnance Departmml. 

14. A quarterly return of arms, accoutrements, ammunition, and of 
all ordnance stores. 

EULES FOa MAKING ACCOUNTS AND PAPERS. 

58 The following rules must be observed in making out and 

forwarding accounts and papers : 

1. Letters addressed to the Adjutant General ' ' on recruiting service," 
will be so endorsed on the envelopes, under the words ' ' official 
business." 



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2. Each voucher must he separately entered on the abstract of 
contingent expenses, (form F,) and only the gross amount of the 
abstract must be entered on the account current. 

3. No expenditure must be charged without a proper voucher to 
support it. (See form E.) 

4. The receipt to the voucher must be signed, when practicable, 
by a principal. When this is not practicable, the recruiting officer 
will add to his own certificate a statement that the agent is duly 
.authorized to sign the receipt. 

5. When an individual makes "his mark" instead of signing his 
name to the receipt, it must be witnessed by a third person. 

6. Expenditures must be confined to items stated in the Regula- 
tions. In an unforeseen emergency, requiring a deviation from thLs 
rule, a full explanation must be appended to the voucher for the 
expenditure ; and if this be not satisfactory, the account will be 
charged in the Treasury against the recruiting officer. 

7. In all vouchers, the different items, with dates, and cost of 
each, must be given. To vouchers for transportation of officers, a 
copy of the order under which the journey was performed, must be 
appended. 

8. In vouchers for medical attendance and medicines, the name 
of each patient, date of, and charge for, each visit, and for medicine 
furnished, must be given, and the certificate of the physician added, 
that the rates charged are the usual rates of the place. 

9. On all vouchers for premiums for bringing recruits, and fees 
for oaths of enlistment, the names of the recruits for whom the 
expenditure is made must be given in alphabetical order, according 
to the numbering of the enlistments. The vouchers may be made 
in form of consolidated receipt rolls, authenticated by the officer's 
certificate that tliey are correct. 

10. The fee usually allowed for administering the oath of enlist- 
ment being twenty-five cents for each recruit, when a greater amount 
is paid, the officer must certify on the voucher that it is the rate 
allowed by law of the State or Territory. 

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11. To each voucher for notices inserted in newspapers a copy of 
the notice will be appended. 

12. Quarterly accounts current must exhibit the numbers of Treas- 
ury drafts and dates of their receipt ; and when funds are transferred, 
the names of officers from whom they are received, or to whom they 
are turned over, with the dates of transfer. 

13. Fractions of cents are not to be taken up on accounts current. 

14. Enlistments must be filled up in a fair and legible hand. The 
real name of the recruit must be ascertained, correctly spelled, and 
written in the same way wherever it occurs ; the Christian name must 
not be abbreviated Numbers in the body of the enlistment must 
be written and not expressed by figures. Each enlistment must be 
endorsed as follows : 

No. — . 

A B 

enlisted at 



January — , 185-, 

By Lt. C D , 

— Regiment of . 

The number in each month to correspond with the names alphabetically 
arranged. 

15. Whenever a soldier re-enters the service, the officer who en- 
listed him will endorse on the enlistment, next below his own name 
and regiment, " second (or third) enlistment," as the case may be, 
together with the name of the regiment and the letter of the com- 
pany in Avhich the soldier last served, and date of discharge from 
former enlistment. This information the recruiting officer must 
obtain, if possible, from the soldier's discharge, which he should in 
all cases be required to exhibit (See 22d Art. of War.) 

16. Re -enlistments must be forwarded with recruiting accounts, 
although the bounty due on them may not be paid. When the 
bounty is subsequently paid, the soldier's receipt is to be taken on 
a voucher showing date and place of re-enlistment, company and 
regiment, and by whom re-enlisted. 



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17. The filling up of, and endorsement on, the enlistment, will 
be in the handwriting of the recruiting officer, or done under his 
immediate inspection. 

18. To facilitate the final settlement of accounts of discharged 
soldiers, the name of the Slate, as well as the town, whei-e each 
recruit is enlisted, will be recordetl on all muster, pay, and descriji- 
tive rolls. 

DEPOTS FOR COLLECTING AND INSTRUCTING RECRUITS. 

59 The depots for recruits are established by orders from the 

Adjutant General's Office. 

60 To each depot there will be assigned a suitable number of 

officers to command and instruct the recruits ; and, when necessary, 
such number of enlisted men as may be designated at the Adjutant 
General's Office, will be selected for the permanent party, to do 
garrison duty and for drill masters. 

61 The number of recruits at depots to be assigned to each arm 

and regiment is directed from the Adjutant General's Office. 

62 The recruits ai'e to be dressed in uniform according to their 

respective arms, and will be regularly mustered and inspected. They 
are to be well drilled in the infantry tactics, through the school of 
the soldier to that of the battalion, and in the exercise of field and 
garrison pieces. Duty is to be done according to the strict rules of 
service. 

63 Tlie general superintendent will cause such of the recruits 

as are found to possess a natural talent for music, to be instructed 
(besides the drill of the soldier) on the fife, bugle, and drum, and 
other military instruments ; and boys of twelve years of age, and 
upward, may, under his direction, be enlisted for this purpose. 
But as recruits under eighteen years of age and under size must be 
discharged, if they are not capable of learning music, care should 
be taken to enlist those only who have a natural talent for music, 
and, if practicable, they should be taken on trial for some time 
before being enlisted. 



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C-i Regiments will be furnished with field music on the requisi- 
tions of their commanders, made, from time to time, direct on the 
general superintendent ; and, when requested by regimental com- 
manders, the superintendents will endeavor to have suitable men 
selected from the recruits, or enlisted, for the regimental bands. 

65 To give encouragement to the recruits, and hold out induce- 
ments to good conduct, the commanding officer of the depot may 
promote such of them to be lance-corporals and lance sergeants as ex- 
hibit the requisite qualifications, not exceeding the proper propor- 
tion to the number of recruits at the depot. These appointments 
will be announced in orders in the usual way, and will be continued 
in force until they join their regiments, unless sooner revoked. No 
allowance of pay or emoluments is to be assigned to these appoint- 
ments : they are only to be considered as recommendations to the 
captains of companies and colonels of regiments for the places in 
which the recruits may have acted ; but such non-commissioned 
officers are to be treated with all the respect and to have all the au- 
thority which may belong to the stations of sergeant and corporal. 

66 Permanen', parties at depots, and recruiting parties, will be 

mustered, inspected, and paid in the same manner as other soldiers. 
Recruits will be mustered for pay only at depots, and when paid 
there, one-half of their monthly pay will be retained until they join 
their regiments. 

67 When recruits are received at a garrisoned post, the com- 
manding officer will place them under the charge of a commissioned 
officer. 

68 Recruits are not to be put to any labor or work which would 

interfere with their instruction, nor are they to be employed other- 
wise than as soldiers, in the regular duties of garrison and camp. 

69... Every enlisted man discharged as a minor, or for other cause 
involving fraud on his part in the enlistment, or discharged by the 
civil authority, shall forfeit all pay and allowances due at the time 
of the discharge. 



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70 Tlio Piuk's and Articles of War are to be read to the recruits 

eveiy month, after the inspection ; and so mucli thereof as relates 
to the duties of non-commissioned officers and soldiers will be read 
to them every week. 

INSPECTION OF EECRUITS AT DEPOTS AND POSTS. 

71 The superintendent or commanding officer will cause a minute 

and critical inspection to be made of every recruit received at a depot, 
two days after his arrival ; and should any recruit be found unfit for 
service, or to have been enlisted contrary to law or regulations, he 
shall assemble a Board of Inspectors, to examine into the case. A 
board may also be assembled in a special case, when a concealed 
defect may become manifest in a recruit, at any time during his 
detention at the depot. 

72 Every detachment ordered from a depot to any regiment or 

post, shall, immediately preceding its departure, be critically in- 
spected by the superintendent or commanding officer, and surgeon ; 
and, when necessary, a Board of Inspectors will be convened. 

73 Recruits received at a military post or station shall be care- 
fully inspected by the commanding officer and surgeon, on the third 
day after their arrival ; and if, on such inspection, any recruit, in 
their opinion, be unsound or otherwise defective in such degree as 
to disqualify him for the duties of a soldier, then a Board of Inspec- 
tors will be assembled to examine into and report on the case. (See 
paragraphs 74, 75, 76.) 

74 Boards for the inspection of recniits will be composed of the 

three senior regimental officers present on duty with the troops, 
including the commanding officer, and the senior medical officer of 
the army i^resent. 

REJECTED RECRUITS. 

75 In all cases of rejection, the reasons therefor will be stated at 

large in a special report, to be made by the board ; which, together 
with the surgeon's certificate <5f disability for service, will be for- 



22 RECRUITING SERVICE. 

warded by the superintendent or commandant of the post direct to 
the Adjutant General. In all such cases the commanding officer will 
cause the articles of clothing, which may have been issued to the 
recruit, with the price of each article, to be endorsed on the certifi- 
cates of disability. If the recommendation of the board for the 
discharge of the recruit be approved, the authority therefor will be 
endorsed on the certificate, which will be sent back to be filled up 
and signed by the commanding officer, who will return the same to 
the Adjutant General's Office. 

76 The board will state in the report whether the disability, or 

other cause of rejection, existed before his enlistment ; and whether 
withproper care and examination it might not have been discovered. 

KECRUITS SENT TO REGIMENTS. 

77 An officer entrusted with the command of recruits ordered 

to regiments, will, on arriving at the place of destination, forward 
the following papers : 

1. To the Adjutant General and the Superintendent, each, a descrip- 
tive roll and an account of clothing of such men as may have de- 
serted, died, or been left on the route from any cause whatever, 
with date and place ; also, a special report of the date of his arrival 
at the post, the strength and condition of the detachment when 
turned over to the commanding officer, and all cii'cumstances worthy 
of remark which may have occurred on the march. 

2. To the Commanding Officer of the regiment, or post, the muster 
and descriptive roll furnished him at the time of setting out, properly 
signed and completed by recording the names of the xecmiis present, 
and by noting in the column for remarks, opposite the appropriate 
spaces, the time and place of death, desertion, apprehension, or other 
casualty that may have occurred on the route. 

78 Should an officer be relieved in chai-ge of a detachment en 

route, before it reaches its destination, the date and place, and name 
of the officer by whom he is relieved, must be recorded on the de- 
tachment roll. Without the evidence of such record, no charge for 



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extra pay for clothing accountability of a detachment equal to a 
company will be allowed. 

79 The "original muster and descriptive roll" of every detach- 
ment, with remarks showing the final disposition of each recruit, 
and the regiment and letter of the company to which he may be 
assigned, will be signed and forwarded to the Adjutant General by 
the commanding officer who makes the assignment. If the recruits 
embraced in one roll happen to be assigned to different posts, the 
original roll is to continue with the last detachment to its destina- 
tion, each commander completing it so far as concerns the recruits 
left at his post. When this is not practicable, extracts from the 
original roll are to he made by the authority which distributes the 
recruits, to accompany the several detachments and to be forwarded 
to the Adjutant General as in case of the original roll. 

EEGIMEXTAI. EECRUITIXG SERVICE. 

80 The regimental recruiting will be conducted in the manner 

prescrilied for the general service. 

81 Every commander of a regiment is the superintendent of 

the recruiting service for his regiment, and will endeavor to keep it 
up to its estaljlishment ; for which purpose he will obtain the 
necessary funds, clothing, &c. , by requisition to the Adjutant 
General. 

82 At every station occupied by his regiment, or any part of it, 

the colonel will designate a suitable officer to attend to the recruiting 
duties ; which selection will not relieve such officer from his company 
or other ordinary duties. The officer thus designated will be kept 
constantly furnished with funds, and, when necessary, -svith clothing 
and camp equipage. (See paragraph 29.) 

83 The regimental recruiting officer will, with the approbation 

of the commanding officer of the station, enlist all suitable men. He 
will be governed, in rendering his accounts and returns, by the rules 
prescribed for the general service ; and when leaving a post, will 
turn over the funds in his hands to the senior company officer of his 
regiment present, iTuless some other be appointed to receive them. 



24 RECRUITING SERVICE. 



Articles or agreement made and entered into this day 

cf , anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and , 

between , an officer in the United States Army, on the 

one part, and , of the county of , and State of , 

of tlie otlier part. 

This agreement witnesseth, That the said , for and on 

belialf of the United States of America, and the said , heirs, 

executors, and administrators, liave covenanted and agreed, and by 
these presents do mutually covenant and agree, to and with each 
other, as follows, viz : 

First. That the said , heirs, executors, and administrators, 

shall supply, or cause to be supplied and issued, at , all the 

rations, to consist of the articles hereinafter specified, that shall be 
required for the use of the United States recruits stationed at the 
place aforesaid, commencing on the day of , one thousand 

eight hundred and , and ending on the day of , one 

thousand eight hundred and , or such earlier day as the Com- 

missary General may direct, at the price of cents mills for 

each complete ration. 

Second. That the ration to be furnished by virtue of this contract 
shall consist of the following articles, viz : One and a quarter pound 
of fresh beef or three-quarters of a pound of salted pork, eighteen 
ounces of bread or flour, and at the rate of eight quarts of beans or 
ten poimds of rice, six pounds of coffee, twelve pounds of sugar, 
four quarts of vinegar, one and a half pound of tallow or one pound 
of sperm candles, four pounds of soap, and two quarts of salt, to 
every hundred rations, or the contractor shall furnish the men with 
good and Avholesome board and lodgings, at the option of the recruit- 
ing officer ; and the recruiting party shall have the privilege of hang- 
ing out a flag from the place of rendezvous. 

Third. That fresh beef shall be issued at least twice in each week, 
if required by the commanding officer. 



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Fourth. It Is clearly understood that the provisions stipulated to 
be furnished and delivered under this contract shall be of the first 
quality. 

Fifth. Should any difficulty arise respecting the quality of the 
provisions stipulated to be delivered under this contract, then the 
commanding officer is to appoint a disinterested person to meet one 
of the same description to be appointed by the contractor. These 
two thus appointed will have power to decide on the quality of the 
provisions ; but should they disagree, then a third person is to be 
chosen by the two already appointed, the whole to act under oath, 
and the opinion of the majority to be final in tlie case. 

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